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  • July 15, 2006 at 4:36 pm in reply to: Most popular training aircraft? #399644
    Trinny
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    it seemed quite a reasonable question to ask

    Reasonable? Yes. Lame? One of the most lame. Must try harder.

    You might want to sort out the HTML in your signature, whilst you’re at it. Including the Bold tags in your link means that you can’t click through to your exciting homepage.

    July 15, 2006 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Most popular training aircraft? #399651
    Trinny
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    Yawn! It is nice to see somebody other than R Weaver posting questions, but honestly, this one is pretty lame. It falls into the same category as:

    1) Do you prefer crabbing or wing-down for X-wind landings?

    2) How many bars should I have on my epaulettes as a PPL student?

    3) What kind of kneeboard is best?

    4) How much will my PPL cost?

    The answer to your question is that the 152 and Tomahawk are almost certainly the most popular (as in, most heavily used) training aircraft in use in the UK. However, the 172 and PA28 also feature heavily as do increasingly, things like Diamonds.

    July 11, 2006 at 6:38 am in reply to: Detailed photos of Cessna 310 #399773
    Trinny
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    310s are starting to be affected by more and more ADs – so much so that an aircraft that would have cost you the better part of GBP175,000 two or three years ago will now cost no more than GBP70,000

    July 7, 2006 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Jet Provost 'wheels up' 7/7/06. #1304509
    Trinny
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    Push the button, the nose gear starts to extend, the uplock microswitch opens and the U.C flag goes. Simple.

    Check the Manual for details. Chapter 4, para 15.

    July 7, 2006 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Jet Provost 'wheels up' 7/7/06. #1304664
    Trinny
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    Well, I’m not the kind of girl to argue, but strictly speaking the U/C flag is disabled once the Nose-Wheel “up” microswitch is released indicating gear in transit.

    You’ll note that I said “without the gear being extended”, not “if the gear is not down”.

    The flag has absolutely nothing to do with the button position.

    Of course, the JP also has 2 x 3 green lights too.

    July 7, 2006 at 1:42 pm in reply to: RAF Sea King crash #2570640
    Trinny
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    Check page 110 instead. Not 55

    July 7, 2006 at 12:55 pm in reply to: Jet Provost 'wheels up' 7/7/06. #1304837
    Trinny
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    The aircraft concerned is reported as being G-BVSP, a T3a

    July 7, 2006 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Jet Provost 'wheels up' 7/7/06. #1304879
    Trinny
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    Despite their relative age, the JP does have a gear warning system, which consists of a white U/C flag in the airspeed indicator when the speed drops to below around 120 knots without the gear being extended. Not the most attention-getting gear warning device, but better than on some aircraft of equivalent age.

    Presumably the full story will out in due course. Meanwhile, we can all look forward to another insurance rise.

    July 7, 2006 at 11:54 am in reply to: Jet Provost 'wheels up' 7/7/06. #1304910
    Trinny
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    Oh dear. As a fellow JPer, I feel for him. 🙁

    July 3, 2006 at 10:57 am in reply to: What type of a/c do you fly? #400203
    Trinny
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    These chaps.

    June 22, 2006 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Oban #400565
    Trinny
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    In point of fact, whilst Oban has an NDB, for the time-being it has no Instrument Approach Procedure. The surrounding terrain is totally unsuitable for an in-line approach in any case.

    We “professional” pilots that wish to take larger aircraft into Oban when the weather is poor, make a radar-assisted cloudbreak at BRUCE intersection, before continuing visually up the channel to the field. That sort of thing separates the men from the inexperienced boy-pilots.

    June 19, 2006 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Oban #400706
    Trinny
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    Oban has had a NDB for decades.

    June 19, 2006 at 6:43 pm in reply to: Brimpton Fly In #400708
    Trinny
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    Not sure that I would attempt to equate Brimpton with Kemble, but I was there and I too would give it a big thumbs up.

    I also loved the little tour I got around the Piston Provost. Humbling to see how much of it is exactly the same as the JP5!

    June 19, 2006 at 6:21 pm in reply to: G-VFWE #400709
    Trinny
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    No “probably” about it.

    Who else could offer you hints and tips on the optimum position for your flaps and speed brakes as you taxi in? They should give him an honorary pilots licence.

    June 19, 2006 at 3:21 pm in reply to: G-VFWE #400714
    Trinny
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    Well even a JP could get from your parking spot to the bowser at North Weald without running out couldn’t it Trinny?

    John looks after us very well, he always taxies the bowser round to us! As it happens though, some bozo in a Baron did have a serious attempt at running us out of fuel on Saturday before we’d even left the ground. As a long-time Baron pilot, I have never witnessed anybody take so long to complete their checks before departing.

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